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Howland

Howland

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Hello,
Old furniture designer and build guy for 30 years. Who got the boat bug as a kid.
Retired kind 5 years ago and decided to design a lead sled.

Here is a sailboat I started to designing and did a 1:4 scale model. DIOTIMA of 16’ LWL 27’ LOA Inspired by Herreshoff and Johna Anker. Did the ratios a came up with it is more money than I care to lose on a lead sled.

My carvel planked 1:4 scale model and
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Half model, concept drawing on Buzzard Bay, line drawing and construction details,
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Naval Architect Ratios of three different hulls and sail plans in a spreadsheet. Thought that a 3D program would take the sport out of it.
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Great to be here
John
 
Thanks for the warm welcome.

I have drawn NIÑA in three different settings. W. Starling Burgess's Staysail Schooner. She won the Fastnet race in 1928.

LOA: 70′ 0″ / 21.33m – LOD: 59′ 0″ / 17.98m – LWL: 50′ 0″ / 15.24m – Beam: 14′ 10″ / 4.52m – Draft: 9′ 7″ / 2.92m – Displacement: 44 Tons – Ballast: – Sail Area: 2,275 sq ft – Foremast: 65′ 0″ / 19.81m – Mainmast: 85′ 0″ / 25.90m

Mr. van Nes said.
"He recalled that Olin Stephens, one of the most successful designers of racing yachts in history, once told him that Nina was the only yacht that looked great from any angle. Try as he might, Mr. Stephens told him, he had never been able to match Nina in the looks department. That was a great tribute to the boat,”

NIÑA is one of the most iconic staysail schooner, I have defied some of lines between sea and sky in the drawing below but have many a lines to lay down and still much to erase.
NIÑA was lost at sea with all hands on board in May 2013 : David Dyche (skipper), his wife Rosemary Dyche, their son David Dyche IV, Evi Nemeth, Kyle Jackson, Danielle Wright, and Matthew Wootton.
May Their Souls Rest in Peac

I have another drawing of NIÑA at The Fastnet Rock Lighthouse also called The Irish Teardrop for it was the last part of their homeland Ireland they would see as they emigrated to America.

I hope to do a model or at least a half mold. I have already laid down some Line Drawings and Table of Offsets.

NIÑA
At the Needles Lighthouse off the Isle of Wight UK winner of the 1928 Fastnet race.
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Allan,
I have been reading a small portion of the SOS old threads.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge freely.
I really am a novice when it comes to model ship building so I will try to stay within the original intent of the thread and learn. Well the best I can.

It looks to a great community of like minded people here that I look forward to meeting.
 
Greetings from the Finger Lakes of New York!

I don't know what much of the content of your spreadsheet means, but it looks like you have accounted for all the important stuff ... like Beer! ROTF
 
They are some of the naval architects design ratio. Formulas that give you a sailboat attributes in an aggregate before you build. What a high-end ships 3-D modeling program would do for you.
On the other hand before clever formulas, and computer modeling programs.
“Every boat is copied from another boat... Let’s reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end up at the bottom after one or two voyages, and thus never be copied... One could then say, with complete rigor, that it is the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others."

"We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove."
Quotes by:
Émile-Auguste Chartier “Alain”
 
Russ,
So I had to account for the beer per crew member in the displacement calculation. It is carbohydrate, making it lighter than water so you can take more with you. It is also a negative number in the sail area to displacement calculation.
 
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